From Penny Arcade (NSFW sometimes):


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How one charity made waves online - Giving- msnbc.comWhat a cool concept!  Kids play on a merry-go-round that powers a pump that draws and purifies water from the ground.  Wow ( Read more... )

Hey hey, everybody!

Alexa.com tracks the traffic on nearly all websites out there on the Internets.  Feeling curious recently, I checked out how my former employers at Whyville.net are doing these days.  Despite the impression they give on their site -- what with the big-name sponsorships, ads, and so forth -- I was rather surprised to find that, ( Read more... )

There's not much time left for sites like Whyville, I think:

GDC07: The LittleBigPlanet Editor In Action - Kotaku

The above is just a taste of high-quality world creation.  All that's left to make Whyville utterly moot is a selection of educationally-bent activities, and a little more flexibility in designing the avatar, and that's it.  As it is ( Read more... )

Law.com - IP's Brave New World: A lengthy, but potentially very on-target discussion of the economy and intellectual property laws affecting Second Life, an adult online community with some similarities to Whyville.  Note the lawsuit for $8,000 in in-game property -- the fellow seems to have lost the suit, but it appears that has more to do with ( Read more... )

PRESS RELEASE iParenting Media Awards Whyville.net as One of Its Greatest Products of 2006:Ahahahahahaaaa!!!  Too too absurd.

Holy crap on a crutch:

http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_dialog_origin_vulnerability_test/

Click on the test link and be scared.

I haven't installed the fix, though -- anybody know if Secunia can be trusted?